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AI copilot for business
All the answers you need in one place
This IBM Watson®-powered BI solution can do it all: clean and connect your data, create stunning data visualizations, and show you where your business is today while helping predict what will happen tomorrow.
IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson takes BI a step further with AI capabilities that not only bring an accurate, trusted and complete picture of your business, but forecast what’s coming in the future, predict outcomes and explain why they may happen.
Try Cognos Analytics at no cost for 30 days
- Web-based data modeling - Upload, connect to, join and model your data.
- Interactive dashboards and enterprise reports - Up to 5 users can join the same trial instance.
- Data exploration and prediction - Predictive forecasting, decision trees, AI assistant and more.
Why IBM Cognos Analytics?
Accelerate data prep with AI
Automate data exploration
Visualize and report on data
Scale and integrate
Protect your data
Modernize and maximize your investment
Hear from real Cognos Analytics customers on G2 Crowd.
Market landscape
BARC names IBM market leader in BI
In the 2020 BARC Score for Enterprise BI & Analytics Platforms, the Business Application Resource Center named IBM a market leader.

An IBM-commissioned Forrester Consulting study finds a potential 204% ROI that may be realized by deploying Cognos Analytics.
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